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1. My issue with 5 strings is non the thicker neck, merely rather the wider cervix. Much more than comfortable on a Jazz width. Narrow string spacing I'grand fine with, so my fiver has as narrow a nut as I've found (but ordinary bridge spacing). Feels good enough to play it without much discomfort ... but it's never gonna experience like home the way a J does, just ergonomically. Learning curve not steep at all, for me. Seems to exist a lot of variation on how people take to it.

   Gizmot and marchone similar this.

5. A four-cord electric bass and a five-cord electric bass (or a six for that affair) are different instruments.

   A five is ordinarily a bit bigger obviously in the cervix and fingerboard, requires a different muting technique than a 4, may exist much harder for guys who anchor their correct manus thumb to attain across 5 instead of iv, and really require a footling more amp and cab to push the occasional low C's and D's realistically on a big stage. Everyone that tells yous 'it'due south just a bass with an actress string' may exist factually accurate in a small way, but otherwise that's BS: They're two different animals.

   So it's enough dissimilar from a four-cord (at first until yous live with it long enough for it Non to experience dissimilar) that it is a bit disconcerting at first. You can tell yourself all twenty-four hours long that information technology's still the same four strings, they only 'moved downwardly' one string, but yous just have to put in the time to make the mental jump.

   That is, only if you desire to make the mental leap.

   I'd buy one IF what I run across every bit advantages are also advantages to y'all (far easier transposition, playing more 'across' the fingerboard and less vertically, 'up and downwardly' the fingerboard, and the occasional tasty low notes), and/or you experience drawn enough to get ane and put in the fourth dimension.

   If not, discover a nice four string that'south an upgrade and get it. In that location's no implied exam of musical manhood past playing 'more strings', though you'd remember that reading whatsoever number of 'Should I Get a Five' posts here in TB.

   The only expert respond when it comes to buying annihilation new (or new to yous) is 'Does This Help Me Make My All-time Music?' What works best for yous is the right respond, and if a 4 suits you all-time, in that location y'all go.

   I converted to fives in the late 80's and never looked back, because it suited much meliorate the way I wanted to run into and address the fingerboard, I always felt out of place on a 4-string, something was missing for me. That was the correct respond for me, and I'd urge you to simply find the right answer for you, any that ultimately turns out to exist.

9. Enjoyed playing a 5 for many years but now I enjoy play four. Personal preference

13. The i to pick is the one that allows you to perform at your highest level.

18. This is my story, but I stress that I'one thousand me and nobody else is, so everyone else'due south mileage may vary, etc...

    After learning to play on four cord basses, I bought an Ibanez SR 5er and for well-nigh 20 years it was the just bass I endemic. But when I got a Fender Jazz 4 cord a few years ago, inside 10 minutes of plugging it in I was playing better than I ever had on the 5. I was never bad on the Ibanez, but information technology wasn't until I got the Fender that I realised I was never proficient on the Ibanez.

    Simply a month or and so ago, I got a cheap used Squier 5er and (subsequently a decent setup and some new strings) I'm actually enjoying it. I certainly feel much more comfortable on the Squier than on the Ibanez. Neck geometry (width, thickness, curve contour) and string spacing really do make a difference. And so for me information technology's not so much "4 or 5" only rather making sure if I have a v, it'due south the correct 5.

    My advice is that if yous want a v, get and effort out some 5s (which you have). Try a lot of different ones. Spend as much fourth dimension with them as you can. Try a Yamaha RBX375 as it's going to be very like to the 4 you're playing at present and that familiarity volition help. Only if you don't bond with whatsoever of them, that'due south OK. Y'all don't have to go 1. Nobody (fifty-fifty here on Talk Bass) is going to force you to go ane. Plenty of great bass players have recorded plenty of vivid tracks on 4 string basses.

22. I decided to go ahead and take the plunge then, I bought a Jackson five string, a couple of years back. I wanted a FSO, but I wanted it to have 24 frets.

    Well, the JS3 was the years they inverse how they do the horns on those basses and my fingers couldn't achieve the 24th fret as a result. Deal-breaker for me. I love my 24 fret basses and guitars.

    It turns out the Spectra (Jackson) probably would accept served my wants/needs, but I really wanted that Fender shape. Of class, Fender might be starting to go into fivers, but they ridiculously former-fashioned when it comes to 24 frets.

    Anyway, I've been getting the crawling again lately so, I ordered an SR305E, but it's on dorsum-gild. It should be in in JUN former.

    I will share my journey with this thread and I want to requite five fingers (high five) to @twofingers for his usual helpful and succinct communication!

26. Most Ibanez SR 5ers are sparse front to back - not as well dissimilar from the SR serial 4 strings - and are quite narrow with a 44mm nut width which is non much unlike to a iv cord Precision. Span string spacing is mostly xvi.5mm or a touch over v/8 of an inch. I beloved the fact that the strings are close together equally it means I am faster with my plucking and picking paw, its easier to skip strings with a pick and my fretting hand doesn't take to stretch as much (especially my manner-likewise-brusque-for-a-bass-player little finger). Others here will tell you they are way as well cramped! In that location are a few SR 5ers with wider (47mm?) nuts and 18mm bridge string spacings just still thin front to back. I would hang out and try to find ane to try if you can. Too the SR605e gets some pretty big raps with SR500 quality woods and build and Nordstrand Big Interruption (Big Split up) humbucking soap-bar pickups; they light and not expensive for what you get. Good luck!

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    2 reasons for me...

    the big one believe it or not is the lack of symmetry. Odd numbers mess with my head and the symmetry of a 4 string bass is more appealing to me than the asymmetry of a five string.

    Second is I just accept not found a 5 string where the Low B sounded good.

34. I accept a impact of CDO, equally well.

38. I've never noticed five-string basses to take thicker necks than four-string basses. Wider equally in distance beyond the fingerboard from lowest to highest string, sure, but not thicker front end to back.

    Of course some are thicker than others, but that's true for four-string necks also.

    Regarding string spacing, there are definitely v-cord (and even 6-string) basses effectually with the same spacing every bit traditional Fender four-strings. My preference is a slightly narrower spacing than a four, but not too narrow: Stingray 5 spacing works well for me.

42. My feel is I plant half-dozen strings was too many strings, and sometimes 4 was too few strings, for the metallic band I was in for 10 years and and so I settled on five. We played in Drop C so I needed that low cord. That said, now that I'm playing mostly non metal music or standard tuned stuff like to Megadeth, four strings are fine again. I currently own 6 4 strings and 3 five strings- it used to exist the reverse. Then actually, there is no wrong respond merely purchase a bass you lot similar. Could be a 4 string precision, could be a 5 string Stingray, only just get something prissy you'll enjoy.

47. Information technology'due south simple.

    If you effigy out how to utilize that 5th string, and you savor using it, you lot'll figure out how to arrange to a 5er.

    If you don't figure out how to integrate information technology into the music you lot play, and y'all don't write new music using it, either, you'll never "bond" with a 5er considering you lot have no reason to.

51. Information technology'south a scrap frustrating when y'all first make the switch: muting needs work, notes in unfamiliar places as you lot conform to teh fact that the first big string you come across is not an E but a B... thicker necks etc. But v string basses come in all shapes and designs. Most take narrower string spacing than your usual 4 strings, but some do not or simply marginally. Cord spacing threw me off the nearly, personally. And then found a Lakland 5502 whose cervix just felt correct and the spacing was familiar, so I enjoyed that bass the nearly. These days my 5 strings are all relatively cheap, two broad spacing and 1 narrow spacing and I'm happy either style.

    I would recommend not but buy a 5 cord bass and learn to dear it... but try equally many basses as y'all can until one feels like "yeah, I can love this one", you know what I mean? Making the switch takes some effort at offset, merely using a bass that feels right to y'all makes the effort a lot less painful.

    Skilful luck in your journey!

    Outbush and Snert similar this.

55. Mostly lack of interest. I bought a 5 cord over 20 years ago in case anyone e'er asked me to use one but and so far no one has.

59. The Ibanez SR series 5'southward are the but ane I find myself consistently picking up and holding onto at a guitar shop. I take smallish hands, and then all the remainder feel like uncomfortable baseball bats, simply I all the same havent pulled the trigger on it. Unless yous play a lot of drop tunings, I dont come across the need, simply its become pretty ubiquitous to see them on stage. I get the paw position advantage, merely maybe Im just too erstwhile to larn a New Pull a fast one on.

63. I don't similar 5 strings. To me, they're completely unnecessary.

67. Being a adequately contempo catechumen from guitar to bass, initially I was absolutely sure I could only play short-calibration instruments. Trying to play a 34" neck seemed extremely difficulty and uncomfortable after 45+ years of guitar. Just my son had a Yamaha bass (34") that only seemed and so overnice compared to other basses that I felt I had to give it a shot. I forced myself to Just play that instrument for a couple a weeks and I found that the adjustment was actually pretty easy one time I quit switching. Now I ain and regularly play brusk and long scales, and the calibration of the bass does not even annals to me any more.

    GC has a generous render period. I would merely become ahead and purchase a 5 you think you will similar (too bad Yamahas seem in short supply during these covid times), and play Cypher merely that musical instrument during the render menstruation. Past the stop you will know if it's for you. If information technology's not working, take information technology dorsum. Just don't try to switch back and forth and compare. Play cypher but the 5 for a couple of weeks and come across what happens.

71. 
    its kind of basics...5 strings trigger my OCD, stingray headstocks (3 tuners on one side, 1 tuner on the other practice not).

    Peloton rides ? My resistance HAS to be an even number.

    Table salt and pepper ? Salt HAS to be added before pepper...

76. Sounds like you're a perfect candidate for a 6 then.LOL.

80. 

    Afc70 Nosotros're just immortal for a express time Supporting Member

    Like feel here, (with a dissimilar outcome tho) played 4's for 25 yrs or so… had never found a five that I liked, until October of 2014, I played a 1995 Modulus Quantum five (17.5mm span spacing) and I was blown away past it- the looks, feel and what a glorious tone! I concluded up buying it & take merely played five's and 6'southward since and so.. 5'southward aren't for everyone tho, only for me it was "time" to motility forward and transition to the five. Which, incidentally, took most one week for me to go comfortable with. Ultimately tho, play what gives you lot the near satisfaction and makes you happy.

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